Bump if you're reading.

>>149415684
I am here

>>149415695
I wish Manta got fleshed out more cause she has a sexy design.

>>149415816
Get Skrulled smug Wankanda

And that's it. If you liked this, support your LCS or whatever.

>>149415816
this is so gay
fuck you bendis & fuck hickman

>>149415878
So the big bad is the Grandmaster?

>>149415930
I'm expecting there's going to be more of a twist around whoever his opponent is.

>>149415751
Did Smasher get nerfed, or is this a different one?

>>149416053
Smasher is basically Ultraboy and limited to activating 1 power at a time.

>>149415826
Im so fucking tired

>>149415873
Since when do ship need stargates in the Marvel Universe?

>>149415843
>every alien race in Marvel thinks earth is some primitive backwater full of lesser beings
>hates on the one human built space empire for reasons

>>149416881
mystery magical niggers arent anything worthwhile

>>149415678 (OP)
>yet another marvel cosmic event where everything is secretly being controlled by two or three puppetmasters
it's all so tiresome

>>149416881
aliens are justified hating such a smug self-righteous pack of humans that also horde their advancements from everyone else.

>>149416961
>horde their advancements from everyone else.
Who is "everyone else"? The other aliens? They just have a lot of Vibrainum Nations and empires are allowed to horde their advancements and wealth.

>>149417017
oh I meant the rest of the human race in this instance, should've worded that better.

>>149417017
sure and are to be called who they are if they hoard them from the rest of their planet

>>149415684
bump

Why is everyone so off character?

>>149415751
So, Hickman is just going to ignore that Wakanda got rid of the Monarchy then?
It's for the best, Black Panther as a franchise doesn't work otherwise.

>>149417334
That's Hickman for you, he always write character the way he sees fit but get a pass for it somehow because people love sucking his cock that much.

>>149415816
Veranke was not a compelling Villain Why even bring her back?

>>149416862
Since Hickman wanted them to exist.
It's the same reason Ronan's back or Jason is back, it's all just because Hickman/Breevort wanted to wipe the slate clean of previous cosmic continuity and bring in a new line of cosmic books

>>149415850
>>149415857
...does this fucking mean that these two issues of Imperial take place BEFORE X-Manhunt?

>>149417585
I guess we will know by that Exiles one-shot

>>149417481
Death of the Inhumans sucked balls so I'm glad it can be declared non canon even it's via this hackjob

I haven't been keeping up. Can someone explain to me why Wakanda is suddenly the most powerful and advanced space empire instead of just the most powerful and advanced Earth nation?

>>149417481
>market this as a "new beginning"
>Hickman's not sticking to write any of the books
>resulting titles are most likely Planet Hulk, Space Wakanda, Nova, Steve Foxe on the Shi'ar and the only somewhat decent hopefully title, Abnett on another Guardians
This is DOA.

>>149417047
>>149417056
Every thing that Wakanda has can be replicated by any number of super-sciensts around the world. Why isn't Tony Stark giving away his repulsor tech to the world? Why isn't Norman Osborn giving away his cure for cancer since he is a good guy now?

>>149417671
So, during the Coates run of Black Panther he made it so Wakanda had the biggest Space Empire in the Marvel universe by several galaxies, so this is really just other writers responding to that retcon and using it.

>>149417671
Basically back in Coates run on BP, he revealed that a group of space explorers sent by T'Challa got thrown into a wormhole that caused them to go back in time 2000 years and during that time they conquered five galaxies and established the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda (commonly referred to as Space Wakanda)

>>149417448
She came back so Jess could have closure back in her book
But Carol's been keeping her in her secret sex dungeon since then so I think this is just randos using her name

>>149417711
>>149417714
That sounds like a really bizarre retcon to me, but it's not like Marvel has never done dumber shit.

>>149417757
Coates was brought up in full Hotep family so him making his Black Panther Run partly that makes sense

>>149415772
>Hey we're putting Shuri in a jailcell in a skintight outfit after being captured during wartime
>Make sure that when we have two burly dudes come in to interrogate her that her ass, thighs, and tits are fucking gigantic
Whoever drew this panel was 100% hoping that people would make rape porn of it and I respect that.

>>149415806
>Oh by the way you can synth usable vibranium from just fucking titanium if you want and that's why we aren't responsible instead of just...a traitor, or somebody fucking buying or stealing some, or us actually being responsible and I don't know that.
>Also none of the countless gigageniuses who have at various times tried to synthesize or extract vibranium on their own have ever figured this out.
Fuck off.

>>149417411
My guess is that Earth Wakanda got rid of the monarchy, but Space Wakanda didn't. The real question is why T'Challa is now in charge of space Wakanda and why Shuri is out here too, they should still be on Earth.

>>149415695
>Starlord
That's Star-Lord.

>>149415816
Yeah, it was obvious that Hickman was going to undo the Kree-Skrull Alliance.

>>149417481
What I still find most annoying is how Hickman doesn't treat Star-Lord and Nova as old close friends, but as people who just sort of know each other and barely tolerate each other.

>>149418060
It was better in this issue than the last issue, but yeah, it's Breevort not caring about their history and Hickman making all the characters fit the puzzle box he has created.

>>149418060
>>149418081
Reminds me of how Hickman had Doctor Strange claim that wizards have no friends to justify a scene where Clea, Wong, and Doctor Voodoo all bailed on helping in G.O.D.S.

>>149418041
I'm not sure anything actually interesting came from that beyond pretending to fix a problem

>>149418115
Empyre as an event was fine, but the main problem was that Ewing just wasn't given enough time in GOTG to really flesh out all the factions

>Veranke
Isn't she doing basic bitch supervillainy in like Brooklyn or something?

>>149418125
Last seen messing with Jess and her kid in Spider-Woman, then being carted off to Captain Marvel's secret Maine sex cave

I was expecting much worse, maybe it will be good

>>149417334
Hickman being Hickman.

>>149417334
Not everyone, only Star-Lord and Nova seem OOC to me.

I want to have sex with Shuri

>>149418124
He had 18 chapter and could have easily involved it in the X-books like he did Nova and the snarks. He added more lore to the progenitors from his Royals book than he did Teddy.

>>149417017
It's just him projecting his own autistic hatred for Wakanda, you'll see this Anon pop up every time Wakanda does

>>149417711
This is the dumbest shit, almost setting breaking if it wasn't so obviously a bad idea. Like goddamn I'm all for sending BP on a space adventure but not like this

>>149417781
Shame it wasn't at least fun Hotep shit like the House Party guy's was

>>149415772
>Classic Shuri costume

Is the retarded movie retcon finally going away?

>>149417711
>hey, what should we make the new biggest, most powerful space presence in cosmic marvel
>oh, you know, just normal humans
I hate it here

>>149416881
I hate that shit, Earth is a cesspit that occasionally expels some of the greatest monsters and warriors in the universe. Ultron, Vulcan, Nova and every time aliens poke it something new and awful comes out.

>>149415684
Wakanda has all the vibranium in space, too?

>>149419429
Yes, part of the reason Space Wakanda was created was to find the source of the Vibranium Meteorite that landed in Wakanda in the first place.

>>149415816
christ... why reveal yourselves so early? why not wait until everyone has drained everyone's millitary power? this is the same problem I had with Secret invasion, they had the advantage before they went overt and they threw it all away.

Yeah the "Country" that has fucking dirt roads is the biggest space fairing Empire.
Sure Marvel sure.

>>149415772
sex with shuri
>>149415803
yet banner is locked up in the mindscape

>>149417711
Ok but where do they get the numbers to populate all these galaxy if it's only wakandians allowed ? How many of themis there going around.

>>149419538
It's space Rhodisha where everyone is a slave or secound class citizen except the Black Human Wakandans

Have any writer done anything with The Barrens being restored into the Borderlands back in 2022 and the universe being now ten times bigger?

>>149419596
Yeah, it was what the most recent GOTG in theory took place, but no one liked that book.

>>149418092
And that came out like within a week of strange fighting his general self by saying he has friends

>>149415816
This might be a better twist if the Skrull deception lasted for more than 1 issue.

>>149419596
It took 20 years for Dan to finish this ass storyline.

>>149415678 (OP)
variant covers
Imperial #2 Gerald Parel Variant
Imperial #2 Javier Garrón Connecting Variant
Imperial #2 Skottie Young Variant
Imperial #2 W. Scott Forbes Lilandra Variant
Imperial #2 1:25 Rogê Antônio Variant
Imperial #2 1:100 W. Scott Forbes Lilandra Virgin Variant

>The conflict begins to spread out to the wider universe! We find out who's really orchestrating the great game of cosmic houses as the last chance to stop a universal war presents itself. Will our heroes be able to stop it in time?
Imperial #3 J. Scott Campbell Just Spectacular Collection VariantJ. Scott Campbell Just Spectacular Collection Variant
Imperial #3 Javier Garrón Connecting VariantJavier Garrón Connecting Variant
Imperial #3 Mateus Manhanini Variant
Imperial #3 Skottie Young Variant
Imperial #3 1:25 Diazalpizar Variant1:25 Diazalpizar Variant
Imperial #3 1:100 J. Scott Campbell Just Spectacular Collection Virgin Variant

>>149415806
>Shuri is a better detective than Rich
God, I hate this bullshit

>>149415850
>>149415857

So the Skulls were doing their usual Skull shit. Then the Hobgoblins decided to take advantage and stage their own coup? Or were they working with the Skulls? Doesn't seem likely. I feel like everything and nothing happened here.

>>149419506
Not only Banner, but the other hulks too, mainly Devil

>>149420324
devil is dead my nigga
pour out some gamma for him

>>149418775
>>149418124
Remember what anons said about Carol getting depowered to bring back Mar-Vell a while ago, this is the catalyst for the event, Once again Carol and Jessica Drew Fumbled so hard that the Kree has to bring Chuck Norris into the field.

>>149420338
By that logic, Green Scar is also dead since the leader used his Shape to get into Banner Mindscape during the events of Immortal Hulk

>>149415935
Is going to be Krona, because DC and Marvel crossover will be a result of the Absolute incursion and Disney already confirming that Warner will be theirs

>>149420338
Devil and Green Scar are back and they raped Thanos, you can thank Coleen Wing for that.

>>149419596
Why should it matter? The aliens Earth interacts with either also live in the Milky Way or in neighboring galaxies. Stuff happening billions of light years away should make no more of a difference than stuff happening millions of light years away.

>>149418060
I think that’s gonna be their characterization going forward unfortunately.
This seems to be the new status quo, so get used to them acting like coworkers who hardly like each other

>>149419496
Only 4 issues long.

>>149419844
She literally states explicitly that the only reason she's able to know is because she has experience with Vibranium, which only Wakanda has because they hoard it.

She's not a better detective, she just has specific information.

>>149415803

Poor little Black Panther guy

>>149415816

I don't know much about Cosmic Marvel but shouldn't they have a system in place now to recognize Skrulls?

>>149421114
I guess thay can't just have everyone walk around with a Skrull detector

>>149420353
Dumb fanficposter

>>149415857
I know this is Hickman and he cant into power levels but he need to give us a reasonable explanation why Xandra couldnt just shut all their brains off with her omega level telepath?

>>149421830
I think it's because of the Manhunt plot from X-Men

this was neat.

>>149421417
Carol let a terrorist alive

>>149415816
Where’s Teddy and Billy in all of this?

>>149417411
Hickman also ignores that Shuri fucking hates being Black Panther and would rather fuck off with Manifold from the Xmen.

Also Shuri isnt Tchallas Robin. She has her own identity, tech and special access to Wakandan spirits for powers.

Hickman is such an obnoxious fucking hack.

And can marvel give us a Black Panther editor with some fucking balls thats actually going to enforce characterization and continuity for once. My fucking god. The character doesn’t even make sense anymore

>>149417427
I hate this mother fucker Hickman so much. Im glad Imperial is going to flop

>>149420694
Fat overweight and ugly writers have such a hate bonner for the Panther chad

Don McGregor would never write this tripe hack shit

If he was writing this, BP would have cracked the ship and having a threesome with Okoye and Storm by supper

>>149415850
I don't know who's jewing who anymore

>>149420388
It's too early, the Secret Crisis is supposed to happen in 2030

>>149418060
If I wa Rich, I would not be Peter's friend anymore after he let Nebula being part of the Guardians.

>>149415844
Sex with Shuri
>>149415857
Sex with Deathbird
>>149415878
That's Grandmaster right?

>>149422835
Hickman is just going by Shuri current character

>>149422893
McGregor let T'challa get beat up a lot in Jungle Action, it's one of the reasons his run is dismissed by modern writers

>>149419429
>>149419459
You'd think but apparently nah you can just make it from Titanium if you're smart.

Also where Antarctic Vibranium came from remains a mystery I suppose.

>>149415878
>>149415684
So any theories on who the Grandmaster's opponent could be?

>>149424539
I think the main issue is that the many retcons done to Wakanda's history and its level of advancement make the events of Panther's Quest kind of impossible to reconcile with modern continuity.

>>149425267
What do you mean?

>>149425293
From the Silver Age to the 90s, it was established that Wakanda had only recently become technologically advanced, and most of Wakanda was still kind of primitive and wasn't really embracing T'Challa introducing new technologies and stuff. But then the 2000s came along and it was retconned that actually, Wakanda had always been super advanced and awesome for centuries. So those older stories now no longer make much sense.

>>149415803
Have we ever seen Cho and Banner Hulk out on one target before?

>>149416881
Well it is wakanda so the hate is justified

>>149415878
>>149425219
Well, The Challenger has been free since the end of No Road Home, so it's only a matter of time before they fuck everything up with a rematch.

Alternatively, it could be an Ultron, but that would suggest we would be rooting for an Ultron victory.

Hummm, if this was Ewing I would say it could be anyone and most likely someone we haven't seen in years. We already know Professor X is going to be part of this, but I don't think he'll be one of the main players.

Aww what am I saying? It's Hickman, it's going to be Doom again.

>>149425787
go back

>>149425787
From what we saw of the opponent in issue 1, they appear to be human or at least human passing. They're also clean-shaven, so that rules out J'Son.

>>149424539
Compared to Ridley's Panther where his ass is not only constantly beat but he's also talked down to by EVERYONE

>>149425877
He isn't wrong

>>149427158
reddit spacing is always wrong

>>149415816
BASED

SHE LOVES YOU

>>149417992
Star-Lord is the gay Bendis retcon
Starlord is what he was in the 70s, 90s, and Giffen's reinvention

>>149415772
head sock makes sense for Pete and Shuri is sexo

>>149425787
It might be Maximus vs the grandmaster

>>149427163
>muh reddit spacing

>>149417711
>my fictional perfect African super nation also conquered most of the known universe
I'm not religious, but lately I ponder upon the usefulness of instilling a healthy sense of shame into people.

>>149415678 (OP)
Hulkling's hot grandma will defeat Veranke.

>>149430178
>most of the known universe
It's just five galaxies

>>149415816
SHE LOVES YOU

>>149415826
Can we talk about how Black Panther has Ekko's ult now?

>>149430527
That's five times more than the Kree, the Skrulls, or the Shi'ar have ever managed to conquer at their peak.

>>149431098
They're called 'the intergalactic empire' but then in the infographic text they control 'five star clusters' and in the picture it's just five star systems

The skrulls deserve better.

>>149428099
>>149428869

>>149430178
>muh fictional perfect African super nation
If Doom had sent some scientists through a black hole that accidentally went back in time several millennia who conquered a huge section of the galaxy and eventually found their way back to contact with Earth, you'd love that shit.

>>149431179
>Latverians
>having agency
lol lmao

What is Imperial about?
should i pick it up

>>149415844

Why does Nova look like he is older then Magneto

>>149431098
I'm pretty sure they are all intergalactic empires. The idea that everything is set in only a dozen galaxies is stupid but Marvel never had a good sense of scale

>>149431179
This, time travel has been used lots of time to change history but when Wakanda does it is now bad and stupid, the people that hate it really do it just because it's a black country

>>149431689
The Kree (from the LMC) and Skrulls (from Andromeda) were before their respective calamities (and are again now that they're in a personal union) but I'm not sure the Shi'ar ever had any holdings outside Triangulum (or whatever their home galaxy is)

>no charts
oh how the mighty have fallen

>>149431689
It gets worse, under Bendis, everything takes place in the Milky Way because he took the term "Guardians of the Galaxy" literally.

>>149425787
>The Challenger
>implying somebody, especially Hickman, would ever use a character Ewing co-created

>>149431689
I personally think that having intergalactic empires is a far worse use of scale. Galaxies are already fucking enormous with billions of stars and even more planets, how the fuck is one empire usually ruled by one person meant to control more than one galaxy?

>>149431843

>>149431843
It's been a while since I read Hackman's Moira stuff but I think he yoinked Iain Bank's thing where most aliens sublime into black hole computers once they advance far enough so most of space is still empty.

>>149431386
Mostly it seems to be resetting the Shi'ar, the Skrulls and Kree back to status quo, and having them interact alongside new additions to Cosmic like Planet Hulk, Intergalactic Wakanda

>>149432018
Sakaar isn't new, it's almost 20 years old.

>>149431883
Even at its peak the Empire couldn't control the whole Galaxy, the "Unknown Regions" are huge.

>>149432078
But it was always its own thing and didn't interact with other Cosmic and Space stories even during the height of the DnA cosmic run.
Even the tie-ins it did have to War of Kings and Thanos Imperative didn't interact with the main villain of those events

>>149432018
>>149432078
>>149432107
What's strange is that Sakaar was brought back thanks to the Time Stone during Amadeus Cho's run as Hulk, but Hickman decided to ignore that, have Sakaar seemingly be destroyed off-screen and introduce a new Sakaar that is seemingly no different to the old one so what was the point.

>>149432125
I don't think Hickamn has read many Cosmic Marvel books since Bendis finished his GOTG run

>>149432125
I'm annoyed that Hickman didn't bring in Skaar, would have been far more interesting for him to be involved than Jen or Amadeus. Also I wish they brought the remaining Warbound, it's been years since anyone used them, not even Korg despite his MCU popularity.

>>149425219
Star-Lord’s dad who faked his death

>>149432255
J'Son has a beard though, Grandmaster's opponent doesn't.

Why did the mastermind kill Hulk’s son so Hulk would get involved.

>>149432184
I think Pak called dibs on Skaar since he's showing up and doing stuff in his Silver Surfer book

>>149432419
So? This book clearly has to take place at some point in the future since its incompatible with what's going on with Hulk in his solo book and Black Panther in Avengers.

>>149431825
I kinda hate Marvel use of the word galaxy especially in cosmic lore, the space equivalent of the UN that have members from all the universe call itself Galactic Council rather than Intergalactic/Universal Council

>>149432431
It apparently happened in the past since we see >>149415857 from Xavier's perspective during the Manhunt event

>>149431843
>how the fuck is one empire usually ruled by one person meant to control more than one galaxy?
City > province > region > planet > star system > interstellar system > galaxy > central goverment, if the country is even bigger you can even make someone watch over multiple galaxies.
Since it's a sci-fi setting you can just have super advanced AI do most of the job

>>149432569
>Since it's a sci-fi setting you can just have super advanced AI do most of the job
The Skrulls ruled the whole Local Group until they got demolished by the first aliens they ran into that did this (the Kree)

Can we just genocide the Kree? All they ever do is cause more wars.

>>149432657
Who could be behind this post

>>149432624
Proof that it work, every space empire should use AI

>>149432676
>Despite being less than 5% of the local group's population, Skrulls are responsible for 95% of the convoluted assassination conspiracy plots.

I seriously need somebody like Green Scar, Sentry or Anti-man to finaly snap and wipe the Galaxy clean of powers and politics and let everybody start over. Up until the Thanos Imperative it was kiiiiiinda logical, but with the builders and last decade's shit its becoming just fucking stupid.

>>149433353
>the builders
Weren’t they just some advanced people that lived inside a star for billions of years only to do one intergalctic invasion in modern day and get killed entirely?

>>149433349
Skrulls were peaceful right up until the kree decided to go apeshit for absolutely no reason.

>>149433501
>hey policy is only one intelligent race per planet so we're going to genocide of you guys is that cool?
>what the fuck no
>I WAS VICIOUSLY ATTACKED FOR NO REASON
[This is what Skrulls actually believe]

>>149415678 (OP)
you know, the art is actually getting better. how unexpected.

>>149434761
I miss that costume

>>149431836
Ewing was basically the only one who used anything from G.O.D.S. Hickman owes him one.

>>149431179
No, I'm also against Doom wank. Why do you just make up things to be mad at? There's plenty of real people saying stupid shit to go rage at.

>>149415684

>>149415684
ok

>>149434761
>>149435934
Skrullhate thread.

>>149415883
>If you liked this, support your LCS or whatever.
I despise this, but I'll support my LCS by buying something good instead.